COVID-19

New Delhi: The declining numbers of COVID cases being reported may boomerang going by the fact that a sizeable proportion of Indians have not been turning up for the second dose of the vaccine. On Saturday, 7,668 beneficiaries received the…

Bhubaneswar: Schools have partially reopened with COVID-19 norms in place and the Board examination schedule has been declared. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has now come up with a standard operating procedure (SOP) to be…

New Delhi: India has scaled another global peak in its fight against COVID-19 by becoming the third topmost country in terms of the number of vaccine doses administered, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry said on Sunday. Only the USA…

New Delhi: Despite achieving a record recovery rate against the novel coronavirus, it is clearly not yet time to rest on our laurels as a large proportion of the Indian population still remains vulnerable to it, the third serosurvey…

New Delhi: Nearly 4.5 million (44,49,552) beneficiaries have received COVID-19 vaccines in just 19 days since the countrywide vaccination drive was launched on January 16. These include 2,11,346 beneficiaries in Odisha. According to the…

New Delhi: Oxford Languages has selected ‘Aatmanirbharta’ (self-reliance) as its Hindi word of the year 2020. The Oxford Hindi word of the year is a word or expression that reflects the ethos, mood or preoccupations of the passing year,…

New Delhi: With 1,77,090 vaccinations recorded till 8 am on Tuesday, Odisha is ranked number 2 in the number of beneficiaries getting the vaccine across the country. Notably, the state government has set a target of 1.92 lakh vaccinations…

New Delhi: With 9,102 new coronavirus cases reported in the last 24 hours, India saw the lowest surge in daily infections in over seven months. The last time India recorded around 9,000 daily cases was on June 4 last year (9,304) when the…

New Delhi: It would have taken 10,000 years for an unskilled worker to make what Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani made in an hour during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent Oxfam report. According to the…

New Delhi: With 46,506 beneficiaries vaccinated in Odisha so far, the state is among the top three in the country in the inoculation drive against coronavirus, according to data released by the Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Tuesday.…